This world was once a technologically advanced human civilization. Somehow, through their scientific experiments they opened a portal to another plane, and magic leaked into this world. The laws of nature changed, and magic began to seep into people, animals, and places, and technology began to fail. Over a millenia, the human societies crashed as magical creatures and forces grew in power and the humans couldn't fight back without their technology.
This is about all that is known of that time period, and all of this came from some plastic recording device we found in a tomb ancient beyond our ability to measure. It consisted of recordings made by soldiers stationed where the Underdark opens to the northern sea, and tells of their struggles and the death of the last great captain of their outpost as they tried to hold back the magical beings from invading their world.
The Time before Magic
This world was once a technologically advanced human civilization. Somehow, through their scientific experiments they opened a portal to another plane, and magic leaked into this world. The laws of nature changed, and magic began to seep into people, animals, and places, and technology began to fail. Over a millenia, the human societies crashed as magical creatures and forces grew in power and the humans couldn't fight back without their technology.
This is about all that is known of that time period, and all of this came from some plastic recording device we found in a tomb ancient beyond our ability to measure. It consisted of recordings made by soldiers stationed where the Underdark opens to the northern sea, and tells of their struggles and the death of the last great captain of their outpost as they tried to hold back the magical beings from invading their world.